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wannadingo

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    Comment #47014207

    We are human, therefore business contracts are subordinate to the touchy feely stuff. Contracts are made solely as a last resort for when trust and communication fail, as they some…

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    Comment #46256690

    Because showing that the mitigation is unreasonable highlights how unreasonable the problem is.

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    Comment #45836122

    So since incorporating in 1851, let's say they put out 60,000 issues. 1 issue would represent about 0.002% of their output. How do you get to over 5% wrong?

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    Comment #45621684

    I think he is saying that once US citizens return to the US, then they will be arrested.

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    Comment #45190546

    Then again, there is a trope going back to Knuth - "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" - which is an argument that it is not clickbait, but merely applying a pattern i…

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    Comment #44771902

    He is not saying immigrants are like children, he means that as the population ages and is not replenished by children, there will be nobody left to work unless the country accepts…

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    Comment #44101141

    All your counter-examples directly depend on the part you quoted and are presumably arguing against.

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    Comment #43724279

    Two pitches played together is a dyad, three together is a triad. There may be words for four or more pitches together but I just call them chords. The term interval only makes sen…

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    Comment #29499343

    To enable ones own salary negotiations as a rational economic actor (TM)?

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    Comment #26502850

    The books are meant to make you question your own assumptions of what is good or right. I think what many people like about Banks is that he did not write simple morality plays. Ia…